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Chris Welcome: Beyond All Things
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Stephen Gauci has begun to document some of the weekly concerts he curates at the Bushwick Public House in Brooklyn, New York. Although brief, this session of a single, 29-minute track packs a satisfying punch to the solar plexus. Led by guitarist Chris Welcome (of the Lisa Mezzacappa Trio, David McDonnell Group and Weasel Walter), this octet frames a dose of free jazz as both unconstrained and choreographed--if by choreographed" we mean the players are generously simpatico.
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by John Sharpe
Chris Welcome Refrain Empty Room Music 2009 The Push-Pull Quartet At the Stroke of Twelve Tigerasylum Records 2008
Brooklyn shows some similarities with the fertile Chicago scene in the growing numbers of young bands with overlapping personnel about town. Cases in point are these two discs featuring guitarist Chris Welcome in ...
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by Terrell Kent Holmes
The eleven tracks here seem to be painted as much as played and the music is sometimes about effects as much as notes. The sequential numbering of these spare compositions, all penned by guitarist/ leader Chris Welcome, recalls the method of numbering paintings in a series, thus underscoring the artistic parallel. The songs revolve mostly around the sax work of Jonathan Moritz, whose brooding ruminations on soprano and tenor unfold slowly while Welcome, bassist Shayna Dulberger and ...
read moreChris Welcome / Shayna Dulberger / John McLellan: Wound Unwound and Within
by Ty Cumbie
Talented musicians seem to arrive in New York by the busload every day. In fact, the music schools, local and otherwise, are churning them out yearly and depositing them unceremoniously onto the mean streets of this city, where they compete for scanty gigs and elusive attention. Two recent arrivals, bassist Shayna Dulberger and guitarist/cellist Chris Welcome, have quickly carved out spots on the underground scene by playing lots of low-paying gigs and pouring their hearts into every one.
They teamed ...
read morePrimary Instrument
Guitar, cello
Willing to teach
Beginner to advanced